Quarantine: Contagion - Couverture souple

Henry, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1904614736 ISBN 13 : 9781904614739

Editeur : Arc Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award

Narrated by a man dying of the plague, Quarantine is a book-length poem that explores sexuality and subjectivity. Lying in a field beside his dead wife and son, the narrator describes the events leading up to his and his family's death. To counter-act the narrator's hold on the story, ten passages, written in the third-person, are interspersed throughout Quarantine, providing an objective vantage point.

"Henry… takes his speaker's voice to a gritty extreme."
Publishers Weekly

"Set at some mysterious, ill-defined moment in time - perhaps during the Middle Ages, it is a compulsively readable dramatic monologue which swims in and out of comprehensibility. Told in the first person, by a man lying beside a river, who may or may not be dead, its numbing, relentless manner of delivery puts you in mind of Beckett. Lines seem to overlap and echo each other. Yet it is not modishly grim. In fact, the entire sequence, as it builds and builds, is extraordinarily gripping - in spite of the fact that we proceed through it as if feeling our way through a chilling fog, unaware of our destination, unsure even of the ground beneath our feet."
Michael Glover

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

BRIAN HENRY is author of four books of poetry - Astronaut (Arc, 2000 / Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), Graft (Arc, 2002 / New Issues Press, 2002), Quarantine (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007) - and his poetry has been widely published in magazines and journals in the USA, the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, as well as being translated into Russian, Croatian and Slovenian. He is also known for his critical essays on contemporary poetry and for his poetry translations, particularly of the work of the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun. Recipient of many prestigious literary awards, including the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, 2006 and three awards from the Poetry Society of America in 2001, 2003 and 2008 respectively, Brian Henry has taught at Plymouth State College and the University of Georgia, and is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Richmond. He co-edits the international journal Verse and lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Brian Henry is author of four books of poetry - Astronaut (Arc, 2000 / Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), Graft (Arc, 2002 / New Issues Press, 2002), Quarantine (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and The Stripping Point (Counterpath Press, 2007) - and his poetry has been widely published in magazines and journals in the USA, the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, as well as being translated into Russian, Croatian and Slovenian. He is also known for his critical essays on contemporary poetry and for his poetry translations, particularly of the work of the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun. Recipient of many prestigious literary awards, including the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, 2006 and three awards from the Poetry Society of America in 2001, 2003 and 2008 respectively, Brian Henry has taught at Plymouth State College and the University of Georgia, and is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Richmond. He co-edits the international journal Verse and lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arc Publications
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1904614736
• ISBN 13: 9781904614739
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible